First Published 01/02/2020
Download both MAMP and WordPress.
Firstly we’re going to set up MAMP. Double click on the installer in your downloads folder and follow the instructions.
Optional: I usually remove the MAMP Pro application by dropping it into the trash as we aren’t going to use this.
Ready to continue? Great! Let’s move on.
Unzip your WordPress download and move it the location you want to base your project. For me this is Documents > Projects. Once you’ve moved the wordpress folder rename it to suit your project, e.g. example-project.
Go to Applications > MAMP > MAMP (The MAMP application is stored within an MAMP folder). When this opens up, in the top bar of your Mac next to the apple logo click on MAMP > Preferences > Web Server.
From here we can tell MAMP the source for our projects, to keep it simple we’ll tell it to use the WordPress download we moved earlier. Click on select and find the folder we moved to Documents > Projects and click select. Then click okay and the Preferences window should close.
Now we’re ready to fire up our servers. Click Start Servers — both the Apache and MySQL servers should go green and the MAMP homepage should open in the browser.
Once your servers are running you’ll see the MAMP homepage. From here we’ll need to do a couple of things, firstly we’ll set up a database for your new WordPress site.